Phoenician love poem

Here is my love poem translated into Phoenician (Canaanite), the West Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup... the language of the Phoenicians, who lived in Canaan country, the coastal region of present-day Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, as well as in the regions colonized by the Phoenicians, particularly the southern coast of the Mediterranean basin.

Phoenician is one of the many dialects of the Canaanites. It comes from the south of the city of Sidon. A region called Püt, inhabited by the Ponnïm (Punicus in Latin). Its extension, along with Tyre, would extend much further north and south to give Phoenicia.

This dialect, from a small region of the Canaanite group, would become in the Near East an essential language, even a lingua franca, due to the commercial dynamism of Tyre and Sidon. The rise of Carthage in the 5th century BC elevated it to the rank of Greek and Latin.

The first inscriptions discovered (-1200) show that Phoenician flourished as a written language, using the Phoenician alphabet, for over a millennium.

While the Tyrosidonian variant established itself as the literary standard, we know, with the discovery of inscriptions, that other dialects to the north and south survived. Western Phoenician (Punic), was also a variant.

The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad, which only records consonant sounds. Phoenician traders spread it, with their language, throughout the Mediterranean basin. Many writing systems were derived from it.